Disabled burglar steals television and floods apartment

A wheelchair bound burgler has broken into his landlord's apartment and stolen a television before shimmying out a window.

CCTV taken in August last year shows 44-year-old Michael Flanagan from Stockton, UK, smashing a window at a property owned by his landlord, before pulling himself out of his wheelchair and into the apartment.

Once inside the property, the one-legged thief dragged his wheelchair through the broken window before stealing a television.

He then disconnects the pipes on the back of the washing machine, flooding the flat.

Flanagan, who has previous convictions for burglary, appeared in Teesside Crown Court last Friday where he was sentenced to 26 months' jail.

Robert Mochrie who was defending the 44-year-old said the burglary was believed to have been an act of revenge because the landlord owed him money.